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The
Silent Time
by Rhiannon Tise
Duke
is unemployed. Laura works late. The sex isn't great and they
aren't talking. Still, there's always money for cigarettes
and alcohol....the boredom beaten by a few hours in the local
wine bar. Their little grip on life in North London
is maintained and the monotony of the mundane remains. Then
slowly.....silently....Terry invades their lives. Bristling
with a hunger for the macabre, he climbs inside Duke's fragile
mind and begins to devour him....
World Premiere
WHen. in association with Mainbrace Theatre
Brockley Jack Theatre, London
3rd - 29th June 1997
The
Cast
Andy
Corelli - Duke
Craig Ian Smith - Terry
Julia Stubbs - Laura
The
Creative Team
Timothy
Hughes - Director
Hansjorg Schmidt - Set and Lighting Designer
Michael Winship - Sound Designer
Dora Schweitzer - Costume Designer
Rhiannon
Tise - Playwright
Is twenty-three years old and currently at the University
of Glasgow studying Theatre, Film and Television. She developed
her interest and confidence in playwrighting whilst attending
workshops at the Royal Court Young People's Theatre. Her first
play WHERE THE DEVILS DWELL was given a reading, directed
by Jane Collins, at the Royal Court during the theatre's Young
Writers Festival in 1994. A developed version of the play
had a platform performance, directed by Afia Nkrumah, at the
Lyric Studio, Hammersmith as part of the London New Plays
Festival. THE SILENT TIME is Rhiannon's second full length
play. It received a rehearsed reading, directed by Indhu Rubushingham,
as part of last year's Royal Court Young Writer's Festival.
Rhiannon has been commissioned by The Chelsea Centre, invited
to join the writers group 7:84 and is currently developing
her relationship with The Traverse Theatre. This July, Rhiannon
travels to Australia, along with five other writers chosen
by The Royal Court Young People's Theatre to represent Great
Britain at the International Festival of Young Playwrights.
Since writing THE SILENT TIME, Rhiannon has written two more
plays DOG SHIT PARK and SKELETONS and her fifth play LAST
TO COME is also underway.
'The
Silent Time is an excellent example of modern theatre…The
play was by no means a light-hearted affair, but the combination
of writing and cast held the audience spellbound.'
The Stage
'The
eternal triangle receives mischievously imaginative treatment…the
pace of Timothy Hughes’s direction and some spot-on
casting. Craig Ian Smith mesmerises as a kind of corrupt copper
of the soul; Julia Stubbs is excellent as Laura, frustrated
by Duke's inner life and Andy Corelli makes Duke's angst plausible.'
Time Out Critics' Choice
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